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An Historical Sketch of Road Development in Ontario (1)
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The Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway: The Scenic Line of Arizona
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1952. Magazine: Vol. 2, July-Sept. 1952 No. 6; an 8vo size staple bound magazine, paginates from 220-262 with black and white illustrations and photographs. Contents include: The Serpollet System The Late Mr. R. H. Bolsover The Scott-Newcomb Steam System Doble Steam Cars British Light Steam Power Society Steam Launches and Their Machinery, 1909 Firing Monotube Steam Generator with Solid Fuel A 1920 Stanley Steamer wtih Modern Boiler and Burner Thermodynamics of Vapour Power-Plants for Motor Vehicles Some rubbing wear to covers, staples in binding have rusted and there are rusty areas a staple insertion points, particularly in the center fold and top back cover. There are some light wrinkles on back cover and on page 229 and wear to top of spine. Ephemera includes: 1. Published sheet, circa 1951, titles Modern Steam Power Development. There is an underlined sentence and a folded edge on the right side. 2. Published Legal size sheet, also circa 1951 with some information on Modern…
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B&O STEAM FINALE: VOLUMES I & II.
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Railways or No Railways. Narrow Gauge, Economy with Efficiency v. Broad Gauge, Costliness with Extravagance. The Battle of the Gauges Renewed
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London: Effingham Wilson, 1872. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 147pp, plates, engravings, folding diagrams, green cloth/gilt (spine renewed with original spine cloth relaid). Scarce original edition. As the title suggests, Fairlie was a leading advocate of the narrow gauge..
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[1914]. (Oversize paper covers) 45pp. Good to very good. Card covers, bound typed manuscript. Spine worn on edges, 1" chip from the bottom of the front cover, a previous owner's name and date on the front inside cover and front endpaper. (1) (with particular reference to the settlement of the older parts of the province and the public works policy of the last century). This appears to be the typed manuscript for an article printed in 'Public Roads and Highways' Ontario 1914. Locale: Ontario. (Transportation, Highways, Public Works, Roads).
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Portfolio of Historic Canadian Steam Locomotives
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Belleville: Mika Studio [no date]. (Portfolio) Not paginated. Fine. 10 multi-colour hand prints for framing inside an illustrated, publisher's envelope. The envelope is edgeworn. (Transportation, Locomotives, Railways, Trains).
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Canada and United States Tour Prospectus -- August 1927
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Cambridge: Oxford and Cambridge Travel Club, 1927, 1927. A splendid look at pre-Depression transatlantic travel, this prospectus for two linked August 1927 tours sponsored by the Oxford and Cambridge Travel Club, with comments on the benefits of travel and of joining the club, open to present & past Oxford & Cambridge University men. Itinerary of the 'short trip' included New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, a week in Canada's Algonquin Park, Ottawa, & Montreal; the 'long trip' (cost, 102 guineas, nearly $9000 in modern terms) headed west from Niagara, going to Sarnia, then through lakes Huron & Superior to Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Jasper National Park (snow skiing, even in summer, possibility of bears), Prince Rupert, along the coast to Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, then back to Toronto, Ottawa, & Montreal. Includes some comments on the more notable places to be visited, frontispiece reproducing a full-color painting of the RMS Carmania by C. F. Hopkinson;…
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Narrow Gauge Portrait: South Pacific Coast; Signed
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The Northern Pacific Railroad: It's Route, Resources, Progress and Business: The New Northwest and It's Great Thoroughfare
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1870. Softbound. Good+, slight soiling, removed from bound volume, university library stamp on top left of cover, as well as tiny deaccessioned stamp at base of page 3.. Original printed wraps. 50 pp. including map on rear cover. An attractive copy of a surprisingly uncommon pamphlet meant to foster expansion during the railroad era.
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The Northern Pacific Railroad (1882)
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The Northern Pacific Railroad [microform]: Its Route, Resources, Progress and Business: the New Northwest and Its Great Thoroughfare
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The Northern Pacific Railroad [microform]: Its Land Grant, Resources, Traffic and Tributary Country: Valley Route to the Pacific
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The Northern Pacific Railroad (1882)
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The Northern Pacific Railroad: Sketch of Its History: Delineations of the Divisions of Its Transcontinental Line ... With Descriptive and Statistical ... On and Near Its Line in Minnesota and Dakota
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The Northern Pacific Railroad: It's Route, Resources, Progress and Business: The New Northwest and It's Great Thoroughfare.
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Philadelphia: Jay Cooke & Co., [ca.1870]. First edition, Octavo. 46, [2, ads] pp. Cover printed in red and black. Original printed wrappers with a map of the railroad's line on rear (small piece excised but not affecting map) and an old center crease. Very good.One of the ads is for development in Montana and bears a letter from Governor Potts. Includes - "Puget Sound-Its Harbors. Climate and Resources."[Together with]Special Report of a Reconnoissance of the Route for the Northern Pacific Railroad between Lake Superior and Puget Sound via the Columbia River, Made in 1869, by W. Milnor Roberts, U.S. Civil Engineer. (Philadelphia): Jay Cooke and Co., [ca. 1870]. First edition. Octavo. 51, [1], [4, ads] pp. Publisher's printed wrappers. Very good.
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Railroading Along The Waterfront
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Milwaukee, WI: Wm. K. Walthers, Inc.. Near Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0941952533 . Small bump on front edge, a few scratches on rear board, not deep enough to go through the color ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 21808 .
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The Western Maryland Railway in the Diesel Era
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Silver Spring, Maryland: Old Line Graphics. 1991. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket has some very minor wear [creasing] to base of spine & is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Endpaper maps. Uncommon. 128 pages The contents include Freight Routes and Schedules; The East and Tide Subdivisions, The Hanover and York Subdivisions; The Lurgan Subdivision; Hagerstown and The West Subdivision; Cumberland and The Connellsville Subdivision; Cumberland and The Thomas Subdivision; and The Durbin and GC&E Subdivisions,. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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Power Railway Signalling
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London: Publishers of the Railway Engineer. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, owner name on front free . endpaper, usual library stamps, waterstain at top inner joint of first . thirty pages.. 1909. Hardcover. The Railway Series of Text Books and Manuals by Railway Men for Railway Men and Others, No. 5. Green beveled boards with titles stamped in black on front boards and in gilt on spine. Many photos and illustrations of railway equipment plus several pages of illustrated advertisements at front and rear. Measures 30 x 24 cm. "This volume deals with what may be called the structure which has been raised on the foundations laid by the pioneers of the art of Power Signalling for railways, and among whom should be mentioned Cooke and Whetstone who introduced the speaking telegraph; Edward Tyer, who enabled single lines to be controlled by electricity, thus greatly increasing their carrying capacity with safety; W. R. Sykes, whose "lock-and-block" is used all over the…
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Street-Railway Roadbed
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STREET RAILWAY ROADBED. Street Railway Publishing Company, New York. First Edition, 1898. 135 pages indexed. Authors: Mason D. Pratt and C.A. Alden. ILLUSTRATED with drawings, diagrams, tables. Former owner name and date of 1903 on front floral end-paper. RARE. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IF ISSUED. A nice copy. Please see our photos.
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Beds in the East
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London: Heinemann. 1959. Octavo Size. Very Good in a Good Dustjacket. Age-toned DJ has some minor edgewear with a very small piece missing to top edge near spine - now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. 237 pages. The third novel in Burgess's Malayan Trilogy 'The Long Day Wanes'. The trilogy was a comic fictional exploration of the impact of the Malayan Emergency which started in 1948. Burgess wrote the Malayan trilogy with the ambition to become a fictional expert in Malaya as he spoke and wrote excellent Malay and the trilogy was based on much of his own experience. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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The Western Maryland Railway Story: A Chronicle of the First Century, 1852-1952
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Baltimore, Western Maryland Railway Company, 1952, hardcover, xvi-134 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued, Association Copy, Signed and inscribed on the half-title page to Robert B. Murray, Undersecretary of the Department of Commerce for Transportation from 1953-1955 "in appreciation of his outstanding public service" and dated Dec. 17, 1954. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end and corner wear, spine titles worn, a few tiny spots to rear cover. A complete history of the first century of this important transportation system servicing the Eastern seaboard and points further west. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs of historic scenes and vintage locomotives including the Alliance, the Monocacy, and the Conewago.
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Canada and United States Tour Prospectus -- August 1927
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Cambridge: Oxford and Cambridge Travel Club, 1927, 1927. A splendid look at pre-Depression transatlantic travel, this prospectus for two linked August 1927 tours sponsored by the Oxford and Cambridge Travel Club, with comments on the benefits of travel and of joining the club, open to present & past Oxford & Cambridge University men. Itinerary of the 'short trip' included New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, a week in Canada's Algonquin Park, Ottawa, & Montreal; the 'long trip' (cost, 102 guineas, nearly $9000 in modern terms) headed west from Niagara, going to Sarnia, then through lakes Huron & Superior to Port Arthur, Winnipeg, Jasper National Park (snow skiing, even in summer, possibility of bears), Prince Rupert, along the coast to Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, then back to Toronto, Ottawa, & Montreal. Includes some comments on the more notable places to be visited, frontispiece reproducing a full-color painting of the RMS Carmania by C. F. Hopkinson;…
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Narrow Gauge Portrait: South Pacific Coast; Signed
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Glenwood Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. 0911760237 . Number 898 of 1000 copies, signed by author on half-title page; Book and DJ have very light edgewear, owner's embossed stamp on FFEP, page ends very lightly toning; DJ has light toning to edges, crease along bottom edge; DJ in protective Brodart cover; b/w photos; 187 pages; Signed by Author .
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Rebels at Relay Depot : A Story of C&A, Mobile and Ohio, GM&N and GM&O Pullmans and Parlor Cars to St. Louis: TRRA and the GM&O Volume 21, Number 1
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Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Historical and Technical Society, Inc., 2007. Very Good+. Minor shelf and handling wear to cover, else Fine. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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